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 Colorado Springs shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina is seen in  undated photos. A gunman burst into a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday and opened fire, launching several gun battles and an hours-long standoff with police as patients and staff took cover. By the time the shooter surrendered, at least three people were killed, and at least nine others were wounded, authorities said. (El Paso County Sheriff's Office via AP)
National Interest

A white domestic terrorist suspect says ‘no more baby parts’

Imagine the Republican freakout if a Syrian Muslim refugee had pumped bullets into a Colorado cop and an Iraq war veteran. But because th ...

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 Pastor Darrell Scott speaks to the members of the media outside Trump Tower in New York, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.   (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Why would a black minister endorse Donald Trump?

When anger shouts haughtily over reason, and fear drowns out truth, honesty is sometimes lost in the din.  We see the efficac ...

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Urban Planning

Praxis Dialogues: Public agency in service of the public good

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National Interest

A quarter million poor Louisianans have something to be thankful for

  The worst place to be poor and uninsured is definitely the Deep South. Ever since Obamacare was enacted, the Republican gov ...

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National Interest

Finally, a web ad that carves up the Trump turkey

  There’s so much to be thankful for today, starting with the basics – as Sinatra sang, “Look at all yo ...

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 Bucks County state Rep. Steven J. Santarsiero (left) and Shaughnessy Naughton, who ran for the 8th Congressional District two years ago. (Image via Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Emma Lee/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Strong field shaping up for Bucks County congressional battle

There are precious few competitive congressional races anymore, but Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District in Bucks County is su ...

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 (Photo via <a href='http://www.trumpnationaldc.com/PhotoGallery.html'>trumpnationaldc.com</a>.)
National Interest

A Donald Trump trifecta

On the cusp of Thanksgiving, I know you’re busy. So I’ll just catch you up quickly on the latest antics of ...

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 FiveThirtyEight blog creator, statistician, and unabashed numbers geek Nate Silver is shown in 2012, shortly after he correctly predicted the presidential winner in all 50 states that year. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
National Interest

Fear not, Trump will still crash and burn in the ’16 primaries

Month after month, the GOP’s execrable bullhorn artist remains perched atop the polls, and there’s growing concern that the g ...

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PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Praxis Dialogues: Designing for good

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

The other story ‘porngate’ may tell us

Most of the furor over the email we know Pennsylvania prosecutors, judges, and lawyers traded has focused on the pornographic, and someti ...

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 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally at the Nugget Convention Center in Sparks, Nev., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Lance Iversen, file)
National Interest

Let’s take a dip in Donald Trump’s cesspool

Demagogues love to market the Big Lie. When Donald Trump insists that “thousands and thousands” in Jersey City’s “ ...

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 In the center, Kingsley Ibeneche as Joseph and Sanchel Brown as Mary, and the cast of 'Black Nativity' at Theatre Horizon in Norristown. (Photo courtesy of Matthew J. Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: A joyful, hopeful ‘Black Nativity’

The Christmas show “Black Nativity” was written by the late poet Langston Hughes, who wanted his African American culture to ...

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December 3: Vision Zero Conference ticket giveaway

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 U.S. Army veteran Jim Purcell, of Burrillville, R.I., (left), displays a placard as U.S. Navy veteran Robert Martinez, (right), displays a folded American flag during a rally Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., held to demonstrate against allowing Syrian refugees to enter Rhode Island following the terror attacks in Paris. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)
National Interest

Reality check on refugee panic: Suspected terrorists in America are free to buy guns

Now that congressional Republicans and roughly 50 cowered Democratic colleagues have passed a panicky bill to impede the entry of Syrian ...

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Urban Planning

Mailbag: Preservationists respond

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